RPHP announces the creation of a computer data base of a unique collection of 100,000 teeth of people born from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s

Two op-eds Paying Tribute to Test Ban Treaty Include Contribution of Baby Tooth Study
–The test ban treaty at 60: How citizen action made the world safer

–Mangano and Ritter: St. Louis baby-tooth survey helped make nuclear test ban a reality

Scientific Journal Articles on cancer Risk Using Baby Teeth
– Click here to read the February 2023 article in the International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services

– Click here to read the November 2024 article in Medical Research Archives of the European Society of Medicine

100,000 Baby Teeth Ready For Scientific Research
– Click here to view the St. Louis Fox2 story about the baby tooth study
– Click here to read press release

– Click here to read August 15, 2021 History News Network article on study
– Click here to read the article in the August 2021 Washington Spectator

– Click here to read an article in the November 2021 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

– Click here to read the article in the University of North Carolina School of Public Health bulletin on the tooth study

– Click here to read the article in the Winter 2023 issue of Orion magazine
– Click here to read the article on dentists and the tooth study, Winter 2025 edition of the St. Louis Dental Society magazine

– Click here to read the Los Angeles Times article about the discovery of 100,000 teeth in St. Louis, November 25, 2001

See below links to the original medical journal articles on the St. Louis baby tooth study

– Reiss LZ. Strontium-90 Absorption by Deciduous Teeth. Science. November 24, 1961. Volume 134. PP. 1669-1673.

– Rosenthal HL. Accumulation of Environmental 90Sr in Teeth of Children. Hanford Radiobiological Symposium, May 5-8, 1969. PP. 163-171.

– Rosenthal HL, et al. Incorporation of Fall-Out Strontium-90 in Deciduous Incisors and Foetal Bone. Nature, August 8, 1964. Volume 4945, PP. 615-616.

– Rosenthal HL, et al. Strontium-90 Content of Deciduous Human Incisors. Science. April 12, 1963. Volume 140, PP. 175-176.

– Kalckar HM. An International Milk Teeth Radiation Census. Nature. August 2, 1958. Volume 4831, PP. 283-284.

 –Moment of Tooth.” Newsweek magazine, April 25, 1960.

– August 30, 2022 podcast on the tooth study, featuring film-maker and tooth donor Nina Seavey

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–Newspaper photos, 1959 to 1970
–Articles from 1959 to 1965